الحرية الفلسطينية تبدأ بالتعليم!

Waseem Yousef, وسيم يوسف أحمد شحاده, Jordanian-UAE Imam, preaching to Arabs, “These filthy morals, you do not really deserve Jerusalem, most of you work in Israel and you are asking the Arabs to boycott Israel, the truth is you are without morals. The Jews are more honorable than you… Israel did not destroy Syria. Israel did not burn Libya. Israel did not scatter the people of Egypt. Israel did not destroy Libya. Israel has not torn Lebanon apart into sects. Before you blame others, look at yourselves in the mirror, Arabs, for the problem is in you… When I saw the flag of my country [UAE] being burned by some Palestinians because of the peace treaty with Israel – I apologize to every Israeli man if you offended him in the past… When the Arab peoples realize these facts, peace will soon come, God willing.” – Waseem Youssef Ahmed Shehadeh, PhD in Quranic interpretation, former Imam of the UAE’s Sheikh Zayed Mosque, is a (born) Jordanian and UAE citizen, and a UNWRA registered “Palestinian,” September 2020

Folks, the Indigenous voice and history will *not* be erased, not by Arab Islam nor by European Christianity. We Indigenous Peoples of this world – Kurds, Jews, Sámi, Wampanoag, Pueblo, Lakota, Cree, Māori, Lāhui, etc (etc etc) – will survive you Arab and European Colonizers.

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I know, history sucks – but it *is* important. Especially for the Indigenous Peoples of this world.

Indigenous Peoples, decolonization is possible! I didn’t say it would be easy or painless, but the Jewish people have actually achieved it. So, what are you all waiting for?!

We Jews successfully chased the British occupiers out of our ancestral land in 1948, and declared our Independent Zion, yet again for the fourth time in Jewish history, upon *our* ancestral land. For this, yes, Israel was attacked by five Arab nation armies the very next day.

These Arab nations waged a 10 month siege to conquest all of Judea-Samaria for Arabs, thus causing the “nakba,” but did *not* succeed. The Prime Minister of Syria admitted in his 1973 memoir that this was a grave Arab mistake. The United Nations watched as the Arab nations conquested Judea-Samaria, but did *not* intervene!

This reminds us of Ukraine today, doesn’t it? The only difference is that Ukrainians have been well supplied with weapons slipped across the border, but no nation of the United Nations supplied us *Jews* with defensive weapons during our fight for Indigenous national survival on our ancestral land. I wonder why?! Just kidding, we know why. It’s called anti-Jewish racism.

Now, because, Israel survived this war, the U.N. was now forced to recognize the nation-State of Israel in 1949, and did so. Then, we pissed off the USSR (aka, the Russians, the Marxists, and their Arab collaborators!), who hated us for allying with the United States after this formal United Nations recognition of our national legitimacy. So, here came the KGB-Arab terrorism and disinformation campaigns – that all present day anti-Zionists are devoutly familiar with!

When the Jewish people won our war for Independence against the British and their Arab supporters in 1948, and we declared our sovereign independence upon *most* of our ancestral land, it included what Transjordan named the “West Bank” and it included Gaza.

For reestablishing our Indigenous Jewish nation, Transjordan and Egypt and Syria attacked with five Arab armies. All that they could conquest of *Israel* was what Transjordan occupied and named the “West Bank” and what Egypt occupied, known as Gaza.

In 1967, the USSR – a United Nations member aligned with Arab nations against Western nations – deliberately gave Syria false intel to cause the three original nations that attacked Israel in 1948 to do so again. This time, they lost in six days! Most of the Jewish people in Israel are MENA Jews, and we know things! MENA, Middle East North Africa Jews, indigenous Jews to the region.

So, the portions of Israel that were occupied in 1949 during Colonizer United Nations resolutions, which includes Russia and Arab nations that seek for Israel to be conquested, are now under rightful Indigenous People control again.

If Israel had been prophetically smart at the time, we should have kicked every last Arab out of the Jordanian named “West Bank” at this time, except for Arabs who were *actually* born there! But, this is our eff up, and we are *still* paying for our *diplomacy* with *Colonizers* to this very day! Like *all* Indigenous Peoples, we are too trusting in humanity to accept our minority in this world – even after the Shoah.

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Who were the Irgun, Lehi, and Palmah that freedom fought for our Jewish ancestral land?

Irgun הארגון הצבאי הלאומי בארץ ישראל (hā’Irgun ha’Tzva’ī ha’Leūmī b’Ērētz Yiśrā’el), literally “The National Military Organization in the Land of Israel.” Lehi לוחמי חרות ישראל (Lohamei Herut Israel), literally “Fighters for the Freedom of Israel.” Palmach פלוגות מחץ (Plugot Maḥatz), literally “strike force,” and was the elite fighting force of the Haganah הַהֲגָנָה, literally, “the Defense.”

They were Jewish freedom fighters, the underground paramilitary armies of the Yishuv Ha’Ivri הישוב העברי, literally “the Jewish population,” the Jewish residents in the Land of Israel (corresponding to the southern part of Ottoman Syria until 1918, OETA South 1917–1920, and Mandatory Palestine 1920–1948) prior to the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, who targeted the British occupiers and their militarized Arab supporters.

Our Jewish freedom fighters – women and men together – sought to not cause harm to non-combatant Arabs, to the extent that they would announce their intentions/arrivals *before* attacking (which is a Torah mandate, by the way). To this day, the IDF continues this practice of warning before attacking a target.

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When anti-Indigenous hate is more important than teaching your children to respect human life! … ‘After a fresh murder’ candy celebration anyone?
(Anyone notice the child, Cowboys and Indians, GI Joes ready for war, so Colonizer, so European and Arab!)

Doris Yahbas. 🕯️
Rabbi Moshe Kravitsky. 🕯️
Lora Yitzhak. 🕯️
Menahem Yehezkel. 🕯️

These are the names of the 4 innocent people who were murdered in today’s terror attack in Be’er Sheva, southern Israel.

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#FightRacism – anti-Indigenous racism, anti-Jewish racism (aka, anti-Zionism), anti-Asian racism, and anti-black racism ! Educate these Arab and European Colonizers that you are not “indigenous” on stolen and occupied lands, nor are you refugees of lands not yours! As well, you are not “victims” when those you oppress rise up against you, so stop lying to yourselves and your colonized, Arab and European Colonizers. *You* are the reason for racism in this world! Fight Racism – by seeking Truth and Reconciliation in *every* Christian, Muslim, and Marxist dominated society!

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Jewish Indigeneity in a simple BCE/ANE poem!

“By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat, we also wept when we remembered Zion.
On willows in its midst we hung our harps.
For there our captors asked us for words of song and our tormentors [asked of us] mirth, “Sing for us of the song of Zion.”
“How shall we sing the song of the Lord on foreign soil?”
If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand forget!” – Tehilim 137.1-5, Chabad translation

I know for a *fact* that no Arab nor European has ever recited that poem as a prayer of Indigenous remembrance!